The Supreme Court of the United States won't hear an NSA-challenging case.

Apple has joined the fight against the U.S. government over how it can report security requests.

Companies are pushing for more openness in the wake of the NSA domestic surveillance system.

Apparently, Verizon has been furnishing private phone information to the U.S. government for years without us knowing.

A German court has struck down on Apple's privacy policies, which have been shown to violate German law.

No one should accuse Apple of misusing user data when compared to what Google is doing with personal information via Google Play.

If your smartphone is seized, the police can make you into someone you're not.

Kyle McDonald walks the fine line between high art and high crime.

The Federal Trade Commission is about to levy its biggest monetary penalty ever.

Facebook is taking steps to improve the privacy of its users. But coming from Facebook, what does that mean?

Private Instagram users are facing the mother of all reality checks.

Another privacy issue is looming that calls into question Apple’s commitment to protecting the company's iDevice users’ personal data. Today comes word app developers can copy and upload a users’ photo library automatically and without their consent, according to The New York Times.

California's Kamala D. Harris works with tech companies to lay out a plan for privacy reform.

As expected, Google's been hit with a class action lawsuit in response to last week's Safari snafu.

Another week, another privacy scandal. Google's just maintaining the status quo.

Today, Apple apparently ended a brewing controversy on how a user's contact list data is accessed. Surprisingly, recent research indicates that unauthorized, jailbroken apps are better at respecting private information than Apple-approved apps.

Just like that, with one statement and an upcoming software update, Apple has apparently ended the controversy of apps accessing and capturing users' address books without permission.

Is anyone still surprised when a social service uses personal information in an "unexpected" manner? Apparently so.

Read on to learn everything we know about the new Carrier IQ controversy.

TomTom NV has apologized for selling traffic information about its customers to law enforcements officials. The company behind the line of navigation apps for motorists sold traffic data to local and regional governments as a way to make more money, in news reported by The Register.